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The Seattle Office of Film + Music took a look at the annual revenue of up-and-coming fulltime local musicians and how they do it. Three musicians, each from different genres, opened up their 2012 financial records. "It was important for us to find musicians who modeled a middle class living," said James Keblas, the Director for the Office of Film + Music. "We are trying to show that this kind of a living can be done without having to be rockstar."
Top 6 Musician Income Streams & Infographic
From the financial analysis, six primary areas were identified which bring most musicians income. While the percentages varied, the categories held true. The musicians also shared tips on how to find success in each category:
1. Licensing and Publishing - Companies, TV, Film, Commercials buy your music. Tip: Send out a monthly digital newsletter of your music to music supervisors with new songs ready for licensing.
2. Music Sales - CDs, downloads, streaming. Tip: You and your fans give away one free song on social media platforms to hook folks to buy more songs.
3. Merchandise Sales - T-Shirts, branded band-aids, condoms. Tip: You will increase merchandise sales by over 50% if you're sitting at the table where the goods are being sold.
4. Live Performances - Concerts and touring. Tip: Don't dismiss the earning potential of busking. Musicians at Sea-Tac Airport and the Pike Place Market are averaging over $100/hour in tips.
5. Studio Work - Film & video game music, back up musician. Tip: Make friends with people in the tech world who need music scored for game or app development.
6. Instruction - Teach others music. Tip: Do group lessons and get the biggest paycheck for your time.
Okay so I have to say this because I just saw the most ridiculous ridiculous statement anyone has ever had the audacity to put on my dashboard:
"You're the moral evil and part of the problem if you spend your disposable income on fanfiction instead of giving it to people in need."
This is the literal ideology of the billionaires and boomers who tell you to stop buying Starbucks if you want to afford a house.
If I earned this income by spending 40+ hours of my week at a job, earning money to afford basic survival, I'm the only one who gets to dictate what happens to the little I have that doesn't determine whether I eat tonight or not.
My brother in christ, half the time those fanfiction authors are the people in need. There's not a day that goes by that I don't see some form of 'I need financial aid so I'm offering commissions' posts. Fanfiction authors aren't just rich trust fund teens lounging at home with nothing better to do. I paid part of my dog's vet bills with commission money.
You are making a huge assumption about someone(s) you know literally nothing about. Likewise, you're acting as if financial aid is the absolute of all charity. You're condemning a complete stranger online with no insight into what charitable efforts they may be making regardless of if they do or do not pay $2 towards someone's rent or surgery. They could be doing volunteer work. Housing in-need relatives. Feeding stray animals. Creating or curating resources for people both tangible and online. They could be working in aid or relief. And you're really going to tell them they're reprehensible because they spent money on something that they enjoy? When paying for fanfiction is no different to buying a book in a store?
Again: Paying for fanfiction is no different to buying a book in a store. You're paying for words/a story written by someone else. Their time, effort and skill. You ae paying for a product/service. In the case of AO3, you are paying for a safe, regulated, convenient platform in order to access said skills and efforts. The way you'd pay for a library card or an Audible subscription.
In a lot of cases the people responsible for statements like this are either the people who think mural crusading and justice touting online is a form of activism, or they're people who's own aid requests haven't met expectations and are thus resentful of income they feel they are entitled to by default of need.
While the latter is, to an extend, understandable it is still neither morally superior nor 'right' to condemn people for spending their own money in ways which harm nobody and benefit both parties. Someone spending their money on fanfiction, mutual benefit aside, is no different to someone buying a Funko Pop or a candy bar or a collectible shoe.
Fanfiction and people paying for it are not the issue. They are not the magical solve-all of poverty. Just like people not buying a $6 coffee won't solve their inability to qualify for a mortgage or first-buyer's scheme. You are assigning blame to the individual instead of the authoritative persons who are responsible. Attempting to use a moral compass as a means to guilt-trip or harass people into funding you is no less than bullying. It is immoral in and of itself.
To ensure you fully understand how ridiculous you sound, I challenge you, the maker of these statements, to go into town and tell the people buying coffee, cigarettes, books, snack foods, makeup, ect that they are the scum of the earth for not instead donating that sum.
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